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Michael Kacmar

Michael Kacmar

Male 1869 - 1949  (79 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 50 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Michael Kacmar 
    Birth 20 Oct 1869  Koprivnica, #13 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death May 1949  Degolia, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I203767  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 7 Mar 2001 

    Father Juraj Kacmar   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Anna Kuchar   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F83629  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family (Susan) Maria Hruskovic,   b. 2 Oct 1867, Zborov Parish, Saris, Slovakia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Feb 1947, Degolia, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1891 
    Children 
    +1. Susan Irene Kutchmire,   b. 17 Jun 1902, Ormsby, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1981, Bradford, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     2. Mary Kacmar,   b. 2 May 1891, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Dec 1979, Bradford, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     3. Anna Kacmar,   b. 1893, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jun 1928 (Age 35 years)
     4. John E. Kutchmire,   b. Abt 1895, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jun 1923, Bradford, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years)
     5. Michael Kutchmyre,   b. 24 Jan 1897, Bradford, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1992 (Age 95 years)
     6. Ellen (Ella) Kacmar,   b. 21 Oct 1900, Ormsby, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jan 1987, Bradford, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     7. George Kutchmire,   b. 7 Aug 1907, Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Nov 1982, Olean, Cattararaugus Co., New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     8. Katherine (Katie) Mary Kacmar,   b. 19 Jul 1910, Ormsby, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Apr 1994, Bradford, Mckean Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Family ID F83627  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Mar 2001 

  • Notes 
    • Family tradition says that blonde haired Michael was a sheepherder in the old country and brunette haired Susan (Mary) Hruskovic was a cook for 30 people. These two met when they lived on either side of the border. (What border it is not known.) They were married in Austria and had two children, Mary and Anna, before they came to America (D-18).
      According to their daughter, Sue Irene, they were Slovaks although her father might have been German (D-18). Michael came over first to America, got a job, and then sent for his family. These events likely occurred between the years Anna was born in the old country in (1893) and John was born in (1895) (D-18, 74).
      Michael was employed in many different capacities. He supposedly came to America for work as a lumber jack. He is listed as a laborer and dyemaker in his daughters' marriage certificates. He worked largely in chemical factories according to daughter, Katie. He and most of his sons might have worked in the charcoal plant in Custer City, PA. He and his family supposedly moved a lot because he was a teamster of horses. He was a roustabout and pumper for independent producers of oil and a gardener at the end of his life. (D-57,73)
      He became a U.S. citizen June 2, 1903 (D-53). He made his own beer and snuff (out of 5 Brothers Tobacco). According to his grandson, John Dudick, the beer was quite good - without bitter aftertaste. (D-73) His granddaughter, Shirley Augustine, remembers that he also made great pigs feet. Grandaughter, Betty Helbert, adds that he loved and ate great quantities of salt pork and butter on his bread. He use to stoke up the wood stove in the living room until it was real hot and then sit right in front of it. He also made wagon tongues and handles for his tools. (D-152)
      Susan, his wife, was a midwife. She, hereself, had 8 children as well as 4 other stillborn children. Our older relatives remembered her stuffed cabbage that "was out of this world." (D-74) Granddaughter Betty Helbert recollected that she made aprons and dustcaps and had her grandchildren go to the neighbors to sell them. She raised two of Betty's siblings, Pat and Margaret Ross, after Betty's mother died. (D-152) Residences: Backus, PA (D-57) (Their children went to school in Backus). Lewis Run, PA (D-57) Oct. 21, 1900: Ormsby, PA (D-36) Aug. 7, 1907: Dunmore, PA (D-74) Mar. 30, 1917: Custer City, PA (D-26) Dec. 29, 1919: Custer City, PA (D-24) Degolia, PA: (D-57) Sept. 24, 1934: Bradford City, Bradford Twp.: Mike and Mary each purchased two acres of land from Dorothy Healy. (D-22)
      Possible nieces and nephews or cousins of this Michael Kacmar, immigrated to PA and moved from Dunmore, PA to Hamlin, Hollistervilel, and Pennsburg, PA. This family included siblings named John Kacmar, b. 1890, Mary Motichka and possibly Andrew. (D-168) They could have lived in Dunmore at the same time as Michael Kacmar.
      Immigration - 24.07.1893 - Austria -



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